Fender-adjuster for cultivators.



w. H. FOX.

FENDER ADJUSTER FOR GULTIVATORS APPLICATION FILED PEIB. 7, 1911.

1,037,609; Patented Sept. 3, 1912.

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WALTER H. FOX, OF LATHEOP, MISSOURI.

FENDER-ADJUSTER FOR CULTIVATORS,

Specification of Letters Patent.

rammed Sept. 3, 1912.

Application filed February 7, 1911. Serial No. 607,079.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER H. Fox, citizen of the United States,residing at Lathrop, in the county of Clinton and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fender-Adjustersfor Cultivators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for adjusting thefenders of cultivators, more particularly to the class of rolling orrotary cultivators, and has for one of its objects to provide a simplyconstructed attachment whereby the fenders may be adjusted vertically orelevated out of operative position by the driver without leaving hisseat when the attachment is applied to riding cultivators and withoutleaving his place behind the shovels or cutters when the improvement isapplied to walking cultivators.

ith this and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereafter shown and described and thenspecifically pointed out in the claim.

The improved device, as before stated, is

7 more particularly designed for use in connection with ridingCultivators of the rotary disk form, and for the purpose of illustrationis shown applied to a conventional cultivator of this class, and in thedrawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a conventional cultivator with theimprovement applied; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is asection on the line 33 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow;Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of the combined sleeve and guide,detached.

Corresponding and like parts are referre to in the following descriptionand indi cated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the samereference characters.

The cultivator portion of the improved device comprises an axle, 10having ground wheels 1112 and a main supporting frame including sidemembers 1314 clipped or otherwise secured at their rear ends to the axleand connected by transverse members 15-16. The cultivator beams arerepresented respectively at 1718 and are connected to swing at theirforward ends at 1920 to the member 16 of the frame, and provided attheir rear ends with the usual disk cultivator members 212 2. Locatedabove the main frame are seat bars 23-24' which bear at their forwardends beneath the transverse member 16 and extend rearwardly and over therear transverse member 15, upon which they rest, and support the seat 25at their rear converging ends. The beams 1718 are provided respectivelywith adjusting and elevating levers, represented conventionally at 2627.The parts heretofore described are of the usual construction. Locatedbetween the disks 2122 are two fender members, representedconventionally at 28-29, and are connected to swing from the crossmember 16 by rods 3031 and are connected by a transverse rod 32. Thefenders 28-29 are supported to travel adjacent to the confronting facesof the disks, as shown. Bearing upon the seat bars 23-24 is an upperclamp plate 33, while a similar clamp plate 34 bears beneath the seatbars, the two clamp plates being coupled by clamp bolt-s 3536 or othersuitable fastening devices. Supported upon the plate 33 are theoutturned lower portions 39 of a segmental vertical plate 40, the platehaving a plurality of notches 41 in its upper edge, as shown. Pivoted at42 to the plate 40 is an operating lever 43 having its lower shorterextending arm forwardly and connected by a chain 44 to the cross rod 32of the fender members. By this arrangement it will be obvious that whenthe lever is actuated the fenders will be moved upwardly and downwardly,the objectto be hereafter explained. Bearing around the lever 43 abovethe pivot point 42 is a sleeve or band 45 riveted or other- Wise securedat 46 to the lever and formed with a vertical offset 47 at one side andwith a depending lip or guard 48. The body of the lever bears againstone face ofthe plate 40, while the guard 48-bears against the oppositeface, the sleeve 45 and its guard48 thus forming a support and guide toretain the lever in place relative to the plate 40, and thus preventundue lateral strain upon the fastening devices 42. By this means thelever 43 may be actuated over the plate and guided and retained inposition through the co-action of the lever and the depending portion 48of the sleeve. Pivoted at 49 to the lever 43 near its hand grip end is arelatively small T-shaped lever 50. Slidable in the guide socket 47 ofthe sleeve 45 is a rod 51 adapted to engage .by its lower end in inengagement with the notches stl.

the notches &1 of the plate and directed forwardly at its upper end andterminating in an offset 52 which extends through an aperture in thelever 50. A spring 53 connects the rearwardly extending portion of therod 51 to the sleeve and exerts its force to maintain the lower end ofthe Igd Y this simple arrangement it will be obvious that the lever 43is normally locked in position upon the plate 40 and is releasabletherefrom by compressing the lever toward the main hand grip portion ofthe lever +13. By this means the lever 43 may be adjusted to any desiredpoint within the range of the notches 41, and thus correspondinglyadjust the fenders 28-29 through the coaction of the chain l4 and therod 32. The fenders may thus be adjusted to any desired point orelevated entirely free from the ground as may be required. The clampplates 33-3 may be readily adjustable upon the bars 23% and may belengthened or shortened or otherwise changed in form to adapt theimproved device to seat bars of difierent sizes and to seat bars spacedat diflerent distances apart without material alteration in theconstruction of the parts, and thus adapted the device to cultivators ofdifferent forms and makes.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensivelymanufactured and applied by any person without previous skill orknowledge.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A levermechanism comprising plates having inturned ends, bolts passingtransversely through the plates and spaced from the inturned endportions thereof, a plate mounted upon one of the first mentioned platesand having an edge portion which projects beyond the edge of the same, alever fulcrumed upon the last mentioned plate and located beyond theedges of the first mentioned plates, a guard having a band whichsurrounds the lever, said guard extending along the edge portion of theplate upon which the lever is mounted, said guard being provided with asocket, and a spring pressed pawl carried by the lever and slidablyreceived within the socket of the guard and adapted to engage the edgeof the plate upon which the lever is mounted.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WVALTER H. FOX. [1,. s]

Witnesses:

Jon T. Doi-rnnrx, J. B. NICHOLAS.

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